"Submit work here"Teaching and Learning Conference by Blackboard, GroningenRoger Gardner and Joseph GliddonTechnology enhanced learning and education development teamwww.bris.ac.uk/tel

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About this session

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• Rationale• People and planning• Package contents and demo• Approaches to feedback• Support and training• Impact, challenges, lessons• Ideas for the future

About Bristol

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About Bristol

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Question for discussionWhat things would be useful to have the same across multiple Blackboard courses?

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Rationale• Consistency• Better management of complex workflows• Scalability

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People• Important to have academic and admin leads• Agree roles and responsibilities at the start

Roles and responsibilities template

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Project plan

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Planning template

Requirements example

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What’s in a package?• Instructions• Checklist quiz• Assignments (with rubric attached)• Extension group• Adaptive releases• Grade Centre columns• Student access to My Grades• Link to upload moderation forms

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Demo and how to copy package• Instructions for bulk copy

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Pedagogic approaches

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Support and training• Responsibilities agreed in advance• Separate session for admin teams and markers• Build capacity by identifying and training up

leads in admin team• Presence of academic and admin leads needed

as questions often about policies and processes

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Reusable items

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Limits of packages• Some things require post import tasks e.g.

setting due dates, or creating Smartviews for multiple markers

• Limits on certain aspects of reusable items e.g. titles

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Impact – growth in marks / feedback online

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Challenges – packages in general• To package or not to package? (extent of

support for minor differences?)• Reliance on Schools to provide accurate

information

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Challenges – electronic management of assessment (EMA)• Difference in the user experience when using

rubrics compared with inline grading• Limitations in anonymous marking functionality• Demand for more and better marking tools on

mobile devices e.g. mark offline and sync

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Question for discussion

What uses might you have for packages?

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Other examples at Bristol• Engineering support forum• Reading lists• Student rep spaces• Contextual variables

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Key lessons learnt• Spend time nailing the requirements• Test imports with small numbers first• Get sign off of data from the School • Build capacity in Schools to be first point of call

for support calls and to maintain packages• If changing several aspects, it is quicker to clear

out packages and import new ones

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Ideas for the future

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Questions

Contacts:roger.gardner@bristol.ac.uk

joseph.gliddon@bristol.ac.uk

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